Ironing-machine.



O. H. MATTIGE.

momma MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3, 1910. 986 ,729, Patented Mar. 14, 1911.

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IRONING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3, 1910. v 986,729, Patented Mar. 14,1911.

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CHARLES H. MATTICE, OF GREEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR.TO ADAMS LAUNDRY MACHINERY COMPANY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

IRONING-MACHINE.

Specification 0: Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 14, 1911.

Application filed February 3, 1910, Serial No. 541,862.

No. 3 George street, in the village of Green Island, Albany county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Ironing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ironing machines or mangles, such as are used for ironing and other laundried articles. It is intended to increase the efiiciency and capacity of such machines by providing novel, additional heating means to the padded rolls against which the articlesto e ironed are forced during the operation.

Other objects and features of my invention will be described in this specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the .drawings, FigureI is an elevation in perspective and Fig. 2, a mid-length,

transverse, vertical section of a machineembodying my invention;

The old and well known parts of the machine, including the frame standards 11, 1,1, cross rods 12, 13, and others, main or lower padded roll 14, upper padded roll 15, hot rolls 1G, 17, 18, 19, feed table 20, delivery table 21, means for rotating the rolls, means for heating the hot rolls by the introduction of steam or otherwise, means for adjusting the presser of the rolls, form no part of the present invention and for that reason require no elaborate description. It is understood that the path of travel of the articles to be ironed, indicatedby the dotted line 22, leads from the feed table 20, be-

tween the rolls 15 and 16, thence between the padded roll 14 and thehot rolls 17, 18 and 19 to the delivery table 21; and that the absorb themoisture driven from the articles by the heat of the rolls 16 to 19. By the evaporation of this moisture from the exposed parts of the surface of the rolls 14 and 15, i. e.,'from the padding or covering thereon, they are considerably chilled.

My invention consists in providing means for directly heating this covering on one or both of the rolls 14 and 15, whereby, by reason of the additional moisture evaporated therefrom and of the higher temperature at which they are. maintained, the efli ciency' of the machine and the rapidity of its operation is greatly increased. The preferable means for securing this result con sists of a. heated body-maintained in constant contact directly with the surface of the padded roll. This body should extend for the entire efficient length of the roll, and may be heated by steam, gas, or otherwise as desired. Its particular shape is non-essential to my invention, but it is advantageous to provide a considerable contacting surface with the roll.

' I will proceed to describe. the particular example of my invention illustrated.

23 is a hollow i'netal body or shoe, having a concave face 24, the are of which corresponds to that of tlfe padded roll .14, with which it is adapted to contact. It is provided with'au opening 25 for connecting with a steam pipe, not shown, which pipe preferably has a flexible connection or universa joint to permit the movement of the shoe as hereafter described. The shoe 23 is mounted on end trunnions 26, each of which engages in a bar 27 pivotally mounted on a cross rod 28 of the machine frame. Through an eye at the lower end of each bar 27 passes freely a bent rod 29, which hooks over a cross rod-12 of the machine, and is threaded at its free end to engage with a nut 30, between which and the end of each bar 27 is aspring 31, so that the shoe 23 may be both yieldingly and adjustably pressed against the roll 14. It will be noted that the heating body or shoe 23 is placed as near as the conformation of the machine, 2'. e., the position of the hot roll 16, will permit to the beginning of the path of travel of the articles to be ironed; so that, as far as possible, the heat applied is conserved to its useful purpose.

As shown, a second heating body or shoe 33 is applied to the upper padded roll 15,

the shoe having a suitably concaved face 34,

i may be yieldingly pressed against the roll is provided with an external source of heat that, as shown, this source of heat is a heated changes may be made in the device without an ironing It will be seen that the padded covering of the roll, in the present instance two of such rolls, over orundcr which the work passes,

maintained in constant contact therewith;

metal body adapted to cover a considerable segment of the roll; that this body may be supplied with steam .or other heating agent from the same source as the hot rolls'of. the wellknown machine; and that this body covering to any desired extent.

By the phrase constant contact," as used to express the relation of the external heated bodies, as 23 and 33, with the padded roll or rolls, I of course intend a contact uninterrupted during the operation of the machine by the passage between the roll and the body of any of the articles which are being ironed. Such heated body, one or more, is entirely independent of the hot ironing rolls, e. 9., I those marked 16, 17, 18 and 19, well known in the art, and has no'direct ironing function. It is obvious that many mechanical departing from my invention. I That I claim is: 1. In an ironing machine, a'padded roll;

an ironing roll and a heated metal body independent of said ironing roll and having a concaveface fitting against a substantial segment of said padded roll and in constant I contact therewith. i 2..In an ironing machine, a padded roll;

roll; and a non-rotatable heated metal body independent of said ironing'i roll; and means for articles to be ironed of the path of travel in which the articles to be ironed adjacent to travel. p I

3.- In an ironing machine, a padded roll; and a heated metal body having a concave face fitting against a substantial segment of said roll and in constant. contact therewith, said body being positioned adjacent the beginning of the path of travel of the articles to be ironed over said roll.

4. In tin-ironing machine, apaddcd roll: {Ill lironing roll; a heated non-rotatable metal )O( y outsideof the path of travel in which the articles to be ironed pass oversaid padded holding-said body in yielding contact with saidpadded roll. v 5. In anironing machine, a padded'roll; an ironing roll; a heated non-rotatable metal body independent of said ironing roll and outside of the path of travel in which the pass over said padded roll; and adjustable means for holding said body in contact with said padded roll.

6. In an ironing machine, padded rolls: and a plurality of heated metal bodies. at least one for each of said rolls. each of said bodies having a concave face fitting against a substantial segment of the roll and in constant contact therewith.

CHARLES H. MATTICE.

pass over said padded roll, but.

independent of said ironing roll anda plurality of 7 no I 

